It was not for sightseers to take the time of the general who received us at the door of his dug-out.
As each went astern and checked her way, the front of the excited throng of sightseers bellied outward, broke, and poured across the boats in a wild stampede for seats.
In one or two cases daring sightseers had invaded the interiors, and were examining with naive interest the photographs, Rugby caps, dented cups, and all the lares atque penates of a Naval Officer.
He had driven some sightseers over from Williamsburg, and while waiting for them to visit the graveyard, he seemed to find relief in confiding to us some of his burden of colonial lore and that his name was Cornelius.
Sightseers who had driven over from Williamsburg were returning.
From the Abbey the sightseers drove to the Academy, where they spent a couple of hours in making their way through the crowded rooms.
Henceforth, Bevan, when sightseers come to the neighbourhood, send them up to Yew Hedge to inspect the one garden in England which does not go in for bedding-out!
Little tugs filled with vulgar sightseers steamed around the ship and shouted a continuous stream of insults when one of the Davis party could be seen.
They had come ashore as friendly sightseers and stood admiring the beauty of the quaint old town.
A favorite pastime of his jailer was to admit crowds of vulgarsightseers and permit them to gaze at his prisoner.
The travelers arrived there on a Sunday, when the fountains were playing, flowers blooming everywhere, and a gay crowd of sightseers thronging the walks.
Sightseers go out to where the water is clear and by looking down through the transparent bottom of the boat they can see, as they go along, the wonderful plant and animal life of the ocean.
It was caused by the dark crowd of sightseers swarming in the square in front of the house of crime.
The stream of returning sightseersstill lined the foot-walks, many of them showing by their behaviour they had been paying a visit to pulquerias too, and more than once.
It would soon have been over now, and the sightseers scattered off to their homes; but just as they were beginning to retire, a new incident claimed their attention.
But if you'd stopped in Quebec, you'd never have been able to give the sightseers the slip.
And because of the sightseers and statesmen, and the folk who had been away for the summer, the shops began to take on beauty.
Duchemin saw him swerve from his first course and steer for a vehicle standing at some distance--evidently the conveyance which had brought the sightseers to view the spectacle of Montpellier-le-Vieux by moonlight.
Now because Chance had seen fit to put him in the way of saving a hapless party of sightseers from robbery or worse, he found himself hopelessly committed to take a continuing interest in them.
Large crowds took advantage of the free permission accorded yesterday to pass through the gates of Paris, and to-day the streets are filled to overflowing with sightseers examining the ruins and other traces of the siege.
The orders had been relaxed and sightseers were allowed to come nearer, though they were still kept at a distance from the pavement.
And don't sightseersgo walking in the park, in spite of the walls?
Mary was afoot sooner than he, and had run to the gate, pushing her way among the idle sightseers to the heavy grating.
Keep together," I cautioned them, as we pushed our way through the mob of sightseersand mischief-makers up Harrison Street to First.
When we had forced our way through the mass of sightseers to a distance of fifty yards from the edge of the bluff, there was a sudden shot, followed by an answering rattle that sounded like the firing of a pack of giant fire-crackers.
Cursing the elements, the sightseers little knew in what good stead the downpour served them, and with nothing worse than being drenched to the skin the party arrived safely.
And then the “debtors’ door” closed till again required for a similar tragedy, the crowd dispersed, and the sightseers sought their beds to dream of the horrors of the past twelve hours.
From the city walls, the terraces of houses, the church towers, and every available height, thousands of curious sightseers witnessed the brave defence and the complete defeat of the Spaniards.
Guillaume was just thinking of Victor Mathis, when he fancied that he saw him standing in the front row of sightseers whom the guards held in check.
In the small space allotted to the standing public there was a serried mass of sightseers who had come up from the streets, a few companions and friends of Salvat having managed to slip in among them.
But, after all, the majority of sightseers are not given to historical reflections.
Theatrical companies and travelling salesmen carried them; visiting merchants and sightseers acquired them.
Sightseers pour into the ducal palace, with its gilded casements and princely saloons, just as if the place belonged to them instead of to the Duke of Devonshire.
It is true that when this pioneer of countless hosts of Southern invaders and sightseers came hither, to admire and covet, the Tay flowed through a savage and shaggy land.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sightseers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
